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by thomasahle 3572 days ago
There could be cases where the intonation is dependent on things entirely outside of the book. If say a politician does something in the writing that is far from what we would expect them to do in today's world.
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How about we allow annotation of text with prosody cues? Mark the words you want stressed. We already use question and exclamation marks.
I'd love that. Writing is a poor representation of language. It'd be nice to bring it up a notch. Here's a suggestion in a paper I wrote on better second language acquisition. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261022308_BETTER_SE...
Like traditional audio books can capture perfectly what you're referring to...
They can, though?